Chapter 237: Overture to the Underworld Marriage

Secret marriage is an ancient custom, in the past, most of the marriage contract was given to one of the parties who died suddenly before the marriage, in order to let the deceased party leave with peace of mind, usually ask someone who understands to hold a secret marriage for them, that is, the living and the dead marry.

In a sense, this custom is very ugly, it is the work of backward thinking, and people think that the person will turn into resentment, that is, evil spirits, because he is not married, and will let the lonely tomb destroy the feng shui that they have been operating for several lifetimes. Of course, there are also great love believers who marry or marry the other half of the world in order to keep their promises before marriage, and then accompany them to the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha for the rest of their lives.

Love is great, that is, selfish. Even if the building is empty, leave me your key; Even if someone has already left, leave those two seats to me; Even if your world is occupied by him, tell me the location of the boundary monument; Even if you agree to be forever, leave it to me forever......

But there are very few people who marry the dead, on the one hand, this is not a good errand, and if it is not done well, it will really lead to evil. Both, after a person dies, it is sad enough, who wants to use such a naked way to recall, to add a little bit of coolness.

This can no longer be regarded as a ghost marriage, but a yin marriage, which is completely matched by the dead to the dead, but Cha Wenbin really wants to re-enter the process of a big wedding with a corpse that has just died and a corpse that has long been decomposed.

White was the main color of this special "wedding", and through the hanging white paper flowers and the fluttering flags cut into catkins, the children's frolicking voices could not drive away the tears in the eyes of the women. The men gave up their favorite mahjong and poker games, and smoked stuffy cigarettes, their eyes empty and dull.

Maybe they didn't know Chen Fang at all, and some people didn't even talk to him, and children like us only thought that he was an old man who was like a madman. The story of him and her should have come to an end on that night decades ago, he failed to marry her after all, and she couldn't wait for him after all.

The old people and the little daughters-in-law tell the stories they heard from their elders, and after many changes, Fluttershy becomes Zhu Yingtai, and Chen Fang is the Liang Shanbo.

Perhaps, in our countryside, a place where you can't even find a car navigation, people's understanding of love is oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, plain and real, this kind of vigorous, quite novel legendary love, let them forget that this yin marriage itself is not such a simple thing.

Although Cha Wenbin was already quite popular that year, "Ruyi Book" was just a book in the final analysis, with only 72 words, recording everything that had insight into heaven and earth, how could he understand it in such a short time.

Just because a person understands the Tao does not mean that he is invincible to another world. It's like Wang Yuyan, who is full of wealth, doesn't have actual martial arts routines.

Tao is the understanding of nature and the pursuit of the spiritual level, not a talisman, a mantra, and the sword will not be sharper.

The reason why a person who has attained the Tao is not because he can catch ghosts and go down to heaven and go to heaven, but because his inner world can see far, clearly, and lightly.

Rao is that you have ten copies of the Book of Ruyi, so what? It doesn't teach you how to draw talismans or set up formations, but what it wants to say is a worldview that most people find empty and boring. As for these charms and spells, they are just some of the things that these seekers have comprehended on the way to the Tao.

The existence of the Tao is not for spells, and the existence of the Taoist priest is not for catching ghosts!

The slaughter of pigs and sheep during the day is just a foreshadowing for this wedding that does not belong to the world at night.

Clearing the field, this is the first thing Cha Wenbin did, children like us have long been dragged home by adults with their clothes, and before it gets dark, the doors of every house have been closed. The mother-in-law hugged the children in their arms and kept probing out, just like the fun game of whack-a-mole, their necks stretched out, and they were sighed and wept old mothers to stuff back into the bed.

This is the most common way for Chinese people to interpret and escape fear, and it is always the safest in the bed, as long as I can't see it, then nothing happens.

After some calculations, who could stay and who had to go, a notice had already been clearly written and posted outside the gate. There are also good things, people who want to see the excitement climb up the back mountain, the place where Abba has fired countless shots without sounding.

But when it comes to marriage, in Chinese customs, there is another important person who pays the most attention to, that is, the matchmaker.

China's marriage has always paid attention to the marriage of the media, so if the marriage is not drawn by the matchmaker, it will be incompatible, although there are two lovers, they will also come to the door to talk about the matchmaker under the mouth of the matchmaker. The order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker will make the wedding gift. The matchmaker will play the role of an intermediary from the time he proposes the marriage, to the engagement and the promotion of marriage.

It's been a long time since Fluttershy has passed away, and the relatives scattered from that era don't know where they are now, so Chen Fang doesn't need to say more, he will be old and childless. If you insist on finding a matchmaker, I'm afraid that the mothers-in-law in the village who usually love to grind their mouths will not dare to go up, who dares to be a matchmaker for the dead? In case this little couple doesn't get along well in the future, and they want to come to the matchmaker to mediate the conflict, then can't the three souls scare off the two and a half souls?

This matchmaker, in the end, Cha Wenbin's idea was solved, he asked the village craftsman to tie a life-size shell, paste paper on the outside, paste some paper clothes, flower gowns, and ask someone to make a wig bun, poke it in the middle of the mourning hall, and deliberately painted a red blush and grinning face.

At first glance, those who don't know really think that it is an old lady standing there.

There is no such thing as the word "lay" that is usually found at funerals, but you can see the word "Xi" cut out of white paper everywhere.

Because there is no elder in the family, this traditional "dragon and phoenix sticker" was written by Cha Wenbin himself, and after writing it in the name of Chen Fang, it was left in the ancestral hall where Fluttershy's family originally worshiped their ancestors, which can be regarded as a marriage proposal for Chen.

Of course, Cha Wenbin didn't care whether the ancestors of Fluttershy's family agreed or not, he just had the right to agree. Then he sent someone to bring in two papier-mâché boxes, which contained the gifts that the man sent to the woman, that is, the dowry.

Half of the first box contained real silk and some common grain seeds, and the other half was a piece of papier-mâché leather, cotton, a clip, and a single garment.

The second box contained two pairs of brocade boxes, containing jewelry such as earrings, bracelets, rings, and hairpins. Although they are all bargains, the people in the village don't want the two of them to get married too coldly, and Fluttershy, who has been wronged all her life, will make up such a set.

Others are gold and silver ingots made of gilded tin foil, with a thick layer of dark coins underneath, which are the dowry gifts that are displayed to Fluttershy's family.

In the same way, Cha Wenbin also prepared something for Fluttershy to dowry, and the content was not much different from this one, it was all paper-paste gadgets, and a group of young people with high flames and no backlash carried these guys around their coffins a few times, which was kind of comforting to both parties.

Except for the set of jewelry, the others were immediately carried to the open space in the middle of the ancestral hall, and a fire was lit, and the two coffins reflected the trembling flames, and the ashes scattered on every corner of the ancestral hall.

At this time, Cha Wenbin personally put two large white flower balls, which were also paper, and posted them under the two coffins, decorated with a small rune paper underneath, on which were written "groom" and "bride" respectively, and the birthdays of the two of them.

In front of these two coffins, there was a tribute table, on which in addition to two bowls of poured rice and raw eggs, there were also some fruit bowls such as dragon and phoenix cakes.

There are tributes in the four corners of the courtyard, there are pig's heads, there are fruits, incense and candles are unbreakable, and Cha Wenbin specially sent someone to take care of these things. In each corner there was a table and two stools, on which were placed two bowls of tea, not for the busy and tired people, but for the little ghosts who came to the wedding.

In an ordinary wedding, the object of eating and drinking is relatives and friends, and the object of this invitation is naturally the people of that world, and the "banquet" must also be in line with the taste of that world.

In front of each stool, some lime will be sprinkled, and the same is true on the table, and the timid people have long dared not move, why? The messy footsteps in front of the stool and the tea spilling on the table were really not their doing, but "them"!

This kind of proportion, Cha Wenbin will naturally grasp it, he is polite, open a banquet for Chen Enlargement, and invite all directions, if there are really a few lonely souls and wild ghosts who want to make trouble, eighty percent will not be able to get out of this ancestral hall.

The most important thing about this dark marriage is to worship heaven and earth, this is to see the true ability, only the husband and wife who have worshiped heaven and earth, that is the real husband and wife, how to worship? You have to bow in the presence of your friends and family! This is the reason why Cha Wenbin invited this group of lonely souls and wild ghosts to the banquet, there must be someone to witness the marriage, and this group of guys is the witness.